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In this exercise I'm going to show you how to save a custom workspace. …Just two more notes about working with palettes here. One is you have got either the…option of either of a Single Column or Double Column toolbox. And I'm going to…go ahead and switch it over to a Single Column toolbox. Because that's is most…likely what is going to show up for you.…Every once in a while though, because it gets cut off at the bottom for me.…Every once in a while I'm going to have to switch over to a Double Column toolbox …in order to show you these guys, you know these little guys at the bottom…of the toolbox right there. But just so that you can see when we are switching…tools, I wanted to be familiar to you. I want you to be finding the tools in…the same location. So I'll go ahead and switch to the Single Column toolbox…and all you need to do is just click at the top here and that is it.…

You do not just drag the toolbox into a different location. If you want to, by…dragging that little sort of scrubby area right there and you can drag the…

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2/6/2009

Adobe Illustrator has long been a popular vector–based drawing program, but for many the learning curve is steep. In Illustrator CS4 One-on-One: Fundamentals, author and leading industry expert Deke McClelland shows users how to get in to the Illustrator mindset and overcome this learning curve. He covers the application's key features in a new way, making it simple and easy to master Illustrator. Deke teaches viewers how to use the core drawing and shape tools, the transformation and reshaping features, text, and the Pen tool. He also explains how to export and print. Even if learning Illustrator has been a struggle in the past, this training can help make sense of it. Exercise files accompany the course.

Topics include:

Creating continuous arcs and looping spirals

Building with geometric shapes

Selecting, placing, and scaling type

Creating spine curves with round corners

Using the new Blob brush to quickly draw and merge paths

Working with flattener and raster effects

Saving illustrations for the web

Skill Level Beginner

16h 48m

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Q: Adobe Bridge CS4 is not previewing files in the same way for me as it is in the tutorial. All I am seeing is a low-quality thumbnail of the image, not previews of each artboard. Why is there a difference between the tutorial and what I am seeing?

A: There is a different view in the tutorial because the author used a beta version of Bridge during the recording. The final release of Bridge CS4 displays thumbnails as you describe.